by Hayley Wood | Mar 6, 2014 | The Public Humanist
Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago, my husband Mark Roessler wrote a food piece for The Valley Advocate on the meat pies sold at the newish bakery on Main Street, Northampton, Tart. The son of two Australians and someone who has been to Australia and England a...
by Greg Liakos | Mar 17, 2014 | The Public Humanist
In 2000 Berkshire County Juvenile Court Justice Paul Perachi approached Kevin Coleman and his colleagues at Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox with a bold idea. The judge, a former high school principal, had seen Shakespeare & Co.’s success with his students....
by John Freedman | Mar 27, 2014 | The Public Humanist
Remember Dick Cheney insisting it wasn’t torture to pour water over a man’s face in such a way that he thinks he is drowning? President George Bush, Jr., proclaiming “mission accomplished”? Embedded news correspondents filing enthusiastic...
by Susan Eisenberg | Apr 8, 2014 | The Public Humanist
“The training will be good for those nitwits.” I winced, but said nothing, then mulled over my silence and “nitwits” for weeks. The speaker was describing the 2-hours of required harassment training for the electrical maintenance department at...
by Ken Chowder | Apr 15, 2014 | The Public Humanist
Editor’s Note: Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America, a film by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, premieres at the Northampton Academy of Music on Sunday, April 13, 4 PM. At the editor’s request, the film’s writer Ken Chowder contributed the...
